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In the Thread: Windows Based Transport: A quiet and capable Source?
Post Subject: Perhaps you're thinking of a 'CD Transport' . . .Posted by item on: 11/2/2011
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Digital: “Binary data”
Trans: “across, beyond, to the other side”
-Port: “transferring or carrying”
You'll note the conspicuous absence of reference to 'spinning disks'. By strict definition, a digital transport only processes data and delivers it to a converter. Anything you add to that (CDs, vacuum cleaners, elderly aunts, etc) is your own business.
You could argue that it's becoming irrelevant whether the file data is sourced from CD, network-attached storage, local drive, or memory stick - but the local playback environment impacts significantly on the performance of the system.
A DAW is primarily a recording device - you 'Work' at a DAW, recording, mixing and monitoring. Different kettle of worms.
HFi World made the claim that the DAT1 sounds better playing the same track than their reference Cyrus CD Transport. The DAT1 plays any file, disk (apart form SACD), video or audio stream at any resolution and bit-depth. It's a computer. It prefers its disks ripped, though . . .
It's popular to call these glorified computers 'streamers' (which is OK), and 'servers' - which I take issue with, as the DAC is not a client in any sense I would recognise as meaningful.
Heck, that's a lot of hair-splitting about words - sorry!
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